FIX: ListView and Item Spacing

• Microsoft Visual Basic Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

The spacing between items in the ListView control changes, getting closer together when you change the BorderStyle property after adding listitems to the listview control. The problem occurs for Icon and SmallIcon views when the items include images.

RESOLUTION

You can work around this problem by setting the Arrange property to lvwAutoLeft or lvwAutoTop after setting the BorderStyle property and before adding listitems to the listview control.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Basic 5.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Start Visual Basic or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F, N).



2. Add a Listview control to Form1.



3. Add an ImageList control to Form1.



4. Place the following code to the form load event of form1.

   
      Dim i As Integer
      ListView1.Arrange = lvwAutoLeft
   
      ImageList1.ListImages.Add , , LoadPicture("c:\windows\cars.bmp")
      Set ListView1.Icons = ImageList1
      Set ListView1.SmallIcons = ImageList1
   
      For i = 1 To 20
          ListView1.ListItems.Add , , "Item" & i, 1, 1
      Next
   
      ListView1.BorderStyle = 0 




5. Run program. Result: The items are all bunched together.

Additional query words: kbVBp400bug kbVBp500fix kbVBp kbdsd kbDSupport kbCtrl

Keywords : kbGrpVB
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Platform : NT WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug